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Fall 2007 Office of the Secretary-Treasurer Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 Phone: 215-573-1246 Fax: 215-573-2112 e-mail: [email protected] Executive Committee Members, 2007-08 Members at Large Councilors Alternate Councilors Barry Snider, Chair Kevin Burgess Michael P. Doyle Kay M. Brummond Kathy Parker, Past-Chair Franklin A. Davis Scott Rynchnovsky Mark D. Distefano Robert Volkmann, Chair-Elect Kelly George Barry B. Snider Paul L.Feldman Gary Molander, Secretary/Treasurer Molly E. Hoke Christopher J. Welch Robert J. McMahon William Greenlee, Program Chair Marisa C. Kozlowski Scott McN. Sieburth, Program Chair Elect Cynthia A. Maryanoff P. Andrew Evans, NOS Exec. Officer 2007 Peter G.M. Wuts Mukund Sibi, NOS Exec. Officer 2009 Current information about the Division is always available on the web at http://organicdivision.org Webmaster: Brian Myers You are invited to attend National meetings of the ACS and present contributed papers (oral or poster). Instructions for submission of papers are near the end of this letter in the section entitled "Information for Submission of a Paper or Poster." Please read them carefully. Submissions should arrive by the indicated deadline for each meeting, which is published in the membership newsletter and C&E News (January and July) and posted on the ACS Website: http://www.chemcenter.org/. Members also are encouraged to submit brief proposals to the National Program Chair for contributed symposia at future National ACS meetings. Contact: William Greenlee, Vice President, CNS&CV Chemical Research, Schering-Plough Research Institute, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, Tel: (908) 740-2220, Fax: (908) 740-7164, Email: [email protected] Edward Leete Award Winner Jeremiah Johnson, Columbia University Schering Plough Fellow We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2007 Nicholas J. Turro, Faculty Advisor Edward Leete Award is Michael P. Doyle of the Univ. Barbara Jane Morgan, University of Pennsylvania Maryland at College Park. This award recognizes his Organic Syntheses Fellow outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Marisa C. Kozlowski, Faculty Advisor Chemistry. He was honored by the Division at the 234th ACS Kay A. Morris, Texas A&M University National Meeting in Boston, MA. Eli Lilly Fellow 2007-8 Div. of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowships Daniel Romo, Faculty Advisor Jaclyn M. Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana Graduate fellowships in the amount of $24,000 each have Organic Syntheses, Nelson J. Leonard Fellow been awarded to: John F. Hartwig, Faculty Advisor Aaron Edward Albers, University of California, Berkeley Andrea Lindsay Nold, Scripps Research Institute Troyansky Fellowship GlaxoSmithKline Fellow Christopher Chang, Faculty Advisor K. C. Nicolaou, Faculty Advisor Brian M. Andresen, Stanford University Troy E. Reynolds, Northwestern University Wyeth Fellow Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellow Justin Du Bois, Faculty Advisor Karl Scheidt, Faculty Advisor Keith Michael Gligorich, University of Utah Clinton R. South, Georgia Institute of Technology Sanofi-Aventis Fellow Novartis Fellow Matthew S. Sigman, Faculty Advisor Marcus Weck, Faculty Advisor Vincent Lavallo, University of California, Riverside Benjamin Robert Taft, University of California, Santa Barbara Pfizer Fellow Boehringer Ingelheim Fellow Guy Bertrand, Faculty Advisor Bruce H. Lipshutz, Faculty Advisor 1 Nicole S. White, University of California, Irvine 234th ACS National Meeting Organic Reactions Fellow Boston, August 19, 2007 Larry E. Overman, Faculty Advisor Arthur C. Cope Award for outstanding achievement in Stephan J. Zuend, Harvard University the field of organic chemistry to Professor Jean Frechet, Hoffman La-Roche Fellow UC Berkeley. Eric N. Jacobsen, Faculty Advisor Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards Information about 2008-2009 fellowships will be available Guillermo Bazan, UC, Santa Barbara at http://organicdivision.org/fellowships.html André Charette, University of Montreal Janis Louie, University of Utah Awards Symposia Leonard MacGillivray, University of Iowa David MacMillan, Princeton University 233rd ACS National Meeting, James Marshall, University of Virginia Chicago IL, March 25, 2007 Kenneth Shea, UC, Irvine David Tirrell, CalTech ACS Award for Creative Research and Applications of Iodine James Tour, Rice University Chemistry sponsored by SQM, S.A., to Professor Peter J. Stang, University of Utah. Yoshinori Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Co. Inc. to Professor James Fraser Stoddart, UC, Los Angeles S. V. Ley, University of Cambridge. Technical Achievements in Organic Chemistry ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, sponsored by The Charles Alt, Eli Lilly (Indianapolis) Dow Chemical Company Foundation to Professor D. Milstein, Charles Clark, Bristol-Myers Squibb (Hopewell) Weismann Institute. Kevin Curran, Wyeth (Pearl River) ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution Kevin Dack, Pfizer (Kent UK) sponsored by Research Corporation to Professor Cheryl D. Mark Embrey, Merck (West Point) Stevenson, Illinois State University. Andy Freeman, GlaxoSmithKline (Triangle Park) Matthew Graneto, Pfizer (Chesterfield) Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution John Miller, GlaxoSmithKline (Triangle Park) in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator sponsored by Pfizer to Professor M. J. Krische, University of Texas. Michael Staszek, Eli Lilly (Indianapolis) Biqi Wu, Wyeth (Pearl River) Ernest Guenther Award in Chemistry of Natural Products sponsored by Givaudan to Professor D. L. Boger, Scripps Call for Nominations Research Institute. The 2008 Technical Achievement in Organic Chemistry Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Awards nomination deadline is December 31st 2007. For Methods sponsored by the Purdue Borane Research Fund and the more information: http://www.organicdivision.org Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment to Professor D. A. Evans, Harvard University. 2008 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award Nakanishi Prize sponsored by Nakanishi Prize Endowment to Purpose: To recognize outstanding service to the organic Professor H -W. Liu, University of Texas. chemistry community. Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry sponsored by Merck to Professor S. H. Gellman, University of Wisconsin, Nature: The award consists of $3,000 and a plaque. The award Madison. will be presented no more than biennially at the Fall executive committee dinner in even-numbered years. The upcoming National Fresenius Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon to award presentation will be in New Orleans during the Professor Phil S. Baran, Scripps Research Institute. 235thACS Meeting, April 6-10, 2008. Travel expenses to attend the national meeting will also be provided. Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry sponsored by Mallinckrodt Baker Inc. to Anirban Establishment: The Award was established in 1994. The Banerjee, and Professor Gregory L. Verdine, Harvard University. Award was endowed by the Midwest Pharmaceutical Process Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry Consortium with a supporting contribution from the Chemistry sponsored by the Breslow Endowment to Professor F. Division of Organic Chemistry. Diederich, ETH Zurich. Rules of Eligibility: Nominees must be long standing members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society who, through their contributions to the organic chemical community in the United States, have significantly enhanced the welfare of its members. Contributions to the 2 American Chemical Society and/or the Organic Chemistry Notes to authors who wish to submit a paper for an ACS Division, including significant accomplishments in the meeting in one of the Organic Division Sponsored sessions: management and function of the ACS that impact the environment of organic chemistry, leadership and innovation 1. Please record your ID# and Password (in left upper corner). in the Division, and conspicuous service on behalf of organic Use these to re-access your abstract if you submit your chemists are appropriate considerations. abstract in more than one session or need to edit it. 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